Dusán Mukics ( born May 11, 1981) is a Slovene reporter, journalist, musician, poet, ballet performer and translator. He was born in

Szombathely } Szombathely (; ; also see #Etymology, names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas County in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by the streams ''Perint'' and '' ...

. His parents are Ferenc Mukics and Mária Kozár Mukics, noted writers and researchers of the

Hungarian Slovenes Hungarian Slovenes ( Slovene: ''Madžarski Slovenci'', ) are an autochthonous ethnic and linguistic Slovene minority living in Hungary. The largest groups are the Rába Slovenes (, dialectically: ''vogrski Slovenci, bákerski Slovenci, porábsk ...

. He studied at the

University of Ljubljana The University of Ljubljana (, , ), abbreviated UL, is the oldest and largest university in Slovenia. It has approximately 38,000 enrolled students. The university has 23 faculties and three art academies with approximately 4,000 teaching and re ...

, and he works at Hungarian Television as a reporter for ''Slovenski utrinki'' and as a reporter for the newspaper ''Porabje''. With his father he drew up a book of Hungarian Slovene folk songs called ''Füčkaj, füčkaj fantiček moj'' in the

Prekmurje Slovene Prekmurje Slovene, also known as the Prekmurje dialect, Eastern Slovene, or Wendish (, , Prekmurje Slovene: ''prekmürski jezik, prekmürščina, prekmörščina, prekmörski jezik, panonska slovenščina''), is the language of Prekmurje in Easte ...

. In the almanac ''Porabski koledar 2011'' he published poems by

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, and

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translated into the Prekmurje Slovene. Dusán was a roommate of Bostjan Zvanut in Ljubljana between 1998 and 2000 in the student housing in

Rožna Dolina Rožna Dolina (; , ) is one of the four suburbs of the town of Nova Gorica in western Slovenia (the others being Solkan, Kromberk, and Pristava). It is on the border with Italy. Before 1947, it used to be a suburb of the town of Gorizia, which w ...

. They were known for their guitar performances. On 11 April 2019 Dusán and his family received the medal of honour from the Slovenian president.

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Praznovanje slovenskega kulturnega praznika (tvslo.si)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mukics, Dusan Slovenian writers and poets in Hungary Slovenian journalists Slovenian musicians Hungarian journalists 1981 births Living people University of Ljubljana alumni People from Szombathely Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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